I believe you can get the test scores through Pearson Vue? I just tried to log in through their My Account screen and got a nice little "Service Unavailable" message.

By the way, here's the URL for that page from the Pearson Vue Testing Center. I'm not sure if this is where you find your test scores, but since Oracle hasn't sent me anything back, it might be a good place to check, when the service becomes available that is.

The questions in this exam are not as difficult as in the OCPJP 6 exam and probably that is why they have increased the number of questions and also reduced the time per question.
90 questions in 150 minutes is still brutal though

Difficulty is certainly in the eye of the beholder. This exam is certainly aimed at a different experience level than OCPJP, but many people will no doubt find this exam extremely challenging. When I first started learning Java, everything was hard. But now that I have experience, I find I can pick up things very quickly, and even extremely challenging exams like the Master Architect Exam and SpringSource certification exams seem easier in comparison to the first Java exams I ever took. Sometimes now I struggle with selecting the correct answer. When I first started, I often struggled just to know what the question they were asking me meant. There's nothing worse than going into an exam and not even understanding the questions. :P

$9.95? That's pretty affordable.

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Cameron Wallace McKenzie wrote:Difficulty is certainly in the eye of the beholder. This exam is certainly aimed at a different experience level than OCPJP, but many people will no doubt find this exam extremely challenging. When I first started learning Java, everything was hard. But now that I have experience, I find I can pick up things very quickly, and even extremely challenging exams like the Master Architect Exam and SpringSource certification exams seem easier in comparison to the first Java exams I ever took. Sometimes now I struggle with selecting the correct answer. When I first started, I often struggled just to know what the question they were asking me meant. There's nothing worse than going into an exam and not even understanding the questions. :P

$9.95? That's pretty affordable.

You are right. This is tougher than the previous (SE5/SE6) SCJA exam. The old SCJA was entirely in a category of its own, which Oracle doesn't seem to be interested in anymore.

The new exam is more like the SCJP/OCPJP 6 (it is after all named Java Programmer - I Certification) except that the level of the questions is a lot easier than the previous SCJP/OCPJP 6 exam. Increasing the number of questions and reducing the time brings it back to the same toughness level as the previous one though.

The OCP - Java SE 7 Programmer II exam is a real beast in terms of the level of the questions.